Print: Hot Type

Top Inspirational Career Advice

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:50:00 -0500

Design TV, presented by HOW and Print, brings you inspirational career advice from the design industry’s most successful business owners and visionaries, including author Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Jessica Hische and authors Tim Lapetino and Jason Adam.

Bold for Boys Script for Girls Not

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:34:00 -0500

It seems that we are continually trying to assign personalities, emotions or other human traits to typeface designs...

Character Studies

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:10:00 -0500

From 2005 until the end of 2010, I wrote the Hot Type column for Print. Early this year, the magazine asked me to make room for Stephen Coles. We called our joint column Stereotype. But we never got a chance to properly introduce ourselves—to each other or to readers.

What is Typography All About?

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:14:00 -0500

If you think about it, the craft of typography is little more than the combination of three very simple things: attention to detail, common sense and visual acuity. Sure, there are typographic rules and guidelines, but they are, for the most part, just based on what is sensible and pleasing to the eye.

Breaking Through Boundaries — Dialogue with Paola Antonelli

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:23:00 -0500

She is the best friend that graphic design and typography have in the museum world. Conceiver of such exhibitions as “Safe: Design takes on Risk,” “Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design,” and “Design and the Elastic Mind,” Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the Architecture and Design department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, seamlessly integrates 2-D and 3-D design in a standard-setting manner.

Open for Business

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:39:00 -0500

Playtype, an online type foundry established by the design agency, e-Types, has launched its own "Concept store" in conjunction with the revamp of playtype.com.

Slab Happy: Trilby Reviewed

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:02:00 -0500

Although the sans serif was originally a bastard offspring of the slab serif, the latter has been copying the former for the past 80 years, and Trilby by David Jonathan Ross continues this trend. Just as Roger Excoffon and Evert Bloemsma reversed the weight distribution of grotesques to provide a fresh appearance, Ross has done the same for the Egyptian. In doing so, he has managed to avoid the pitfall of ending up with a French Clarendon (think Playbill or Ponderosa), the typeface that has been pigeon-holed as a symbol of the Old West: the typeface of gunslingers and gamblers, of ranchers and rustlers.

Priori Acute: A Twist on 19th Century Display Types

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:41:00 -0500

Jonathan Barnbrook, one of the "bad boys" of type design in the 1990s, has mellowed. Priori Acute Serif, his newest font, designed with Marcus Leis Allion, does not have a provocative name, nor is it obviously transgressive

Typography in the 1990s

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:46:00 -0500

How quickly “now” becomes “then.” A few weeks ago, I was looking for examples of experimental typography to show to my MFA students at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). I pulled a book off the shelf called Typography Now Two: Implosion, edited by Rick Poynor in 1996.

Typoliteracy

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:42:00 -0500

I love type prefix titles like Typotheque, Tipoteca, Typology, Typomuffin, etc. Now there's Typedia, and you guessesd it is a wiki-like, interactive encyclopedic type website designed and devised by a slew of web/type enthusiasts and intended to answer every type question you've ever had.